Was Hillary Clinton, former first lady and presidential candidate, detained in Guantánamo? This is what the posts shared on social media suggest. But will it be true?
“Attention. The first images of the alleged arrest of Hillary Clinton, which happened five years ago.” It is the text that accompanies an image that shows a woman dressed in green being dragged by two soldiers.
Facebook post alleges Hillary Clinton’s detention at Guantanamo Bay prison.
By searching only for the image in question, we are taken to an image shared by various means of communicationlike NBC News, The Guardian and Al Jazeera, who share a photo of Shane T Mccoy, for Reuters, in prison. Guantanamo. The photograph was taken in 2002 and illustrates a person detained by the United States Army Military Police being escorted to his cell at the Gantanamo naval base. There is only one fundamental problem with the publications that now share the same image: contrary to what is claimed, the images do not show any sign of Hillary Clinton’s presence.
The image that is now circulating on social networks appears with much lower quality, but has clear similarities with the photograph taken by Shane T Mccoy in 2002, from the position of the US army at the bottom of the naval base, but has significant handling: Instead of the detainee, an image of Hillary Clinton appears, with her back to the camera, dressed in a green coat.
In fact, the photograph of Hillary Clinton used in this handling It was also taken by Reuters in February 2016. At that time, the US presidential candidate was photographed in the same green coat, losing her balance and being grabbed (but not by the US military) during a visit to a home for former drug addicts in South Carolina.
Unsurprisingly, none of Hillary Clinton’s biographies indicate that the former presidential candidate was ever detained (at Guantanamo Bay or any other prison). She was United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 and First Lady from 1993 to 2001, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. In 2016 she won the Democratic nomination for the White House, but lost the election to Donald Trump.
As for the Guantanamo Bay prison, just weeks before leaving her post as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton sent a memo to President Barack Obama calling for the prison to be closed. In 2002, Guantánamo Bay received the first 20 detainees of the “war on terrorism” after the September 11 attack on North American territory. The UN has since condemned him for subjecting prisoners to “cruel and inhumane” treatment.
“There are cumulative aggravating effects on the dignity of detainees.” Guantánamo detainees are subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment
Conclusion
The image that appears to show Hillary Clinton detained in Guantanamo Bay is a handling. It mixes two images, a 2002 photograph of the Guantanamo Bay prison and the detention of a man and a 2016 photograph of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, being caught as she fell during a campaign rally.
It is not surprising that the biographies of the former Secretary of State and First Lady do not include any reference to her detention, neither in Guantánamo nor in any prison.
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